Tag: cottage garden

As I was staying in Sissinghurst village for my visit to Great Dixter at the lovely Milk House, which I would thoroughly recommend to anyone visiting that area, it would have been madness for me not to visit Sissinghurst garden. I have to admit to having mixed feelings about this garden visit. Sissinghurst is one…

I’ve been umming and arhing about what I should focus on this year for the End of Month View. I like to have a new area to look at each year. Last year I bored you with my front garden and before that I looked at the slope, cottage border and woodland border. I have…

Stone House, Worcestershire This post is written as part of the Grow Write Guild – this week the theme is Your Dream Garden When I sat down to write about my dream garden I closed my eyes to try to bring an image to mind. Weirdly, it all went a little Disneyish and the fantasy…

Another month over and it couldn’t have been one of more extremes. Nothing but rain and low temperatures at the beginning and then no rain just unseasonably high temperatures the last few weeks. There seems to have been no transition from one to the other, one minute we were wearing jumpers the next T-shirts. The…

We nearly had a perfect English Sunday outing this weekend. We decided that it would not be sensible for me to go to Spetchley Rare Plant Fayre as I would only end up with more plants that I would then have to find homes for. This isn’t a good idea as there is further temptation only…

This Saturday I spent a pleasant afternoon at a friend’s garden. She had opened it for our garden club and it was immaculate. Despite, or maybe because of, the rain the night before and yesterday morning everything was looking perky and standing to attention. The garden is divided into rooms. There are raised vegetable beds…

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Hi, welcome to blog.
I have been blogging mainly about my garden since 2008 but my proper job is in higher education administration.
I have been very lucky since I started to blog to meet lots of interesting people, learn loads about plants, and visited lots of amazing gardens. These days my posts aren't as regular as they used to be because of work commitments but whenever I come across something interesting or beautiful that I think readers might enjoy I shall try to share it with you